Danann Uncertainty ends as the Covenant suddenly pulls back on all their fronts, sometimes even leaving their camps and belongings behind. Many high-ranking diplomats suddenly turn in their positions and go back to their homelands. The other cabals are baffled, even the Bearclaw Brotherhood who seeing their sometimes allies retreating are forced to concede some of their own advances. Strategists all over the battlegrounds hurry to analyze the Covenants strange movements, hoping to gain an edge for their own cabal.

When forces belonging to JusticeAtlas approached a port town they had a simple, yet effective plan. Karl Maria Viligut would lead a contingent of the more martial parts of the force to the town centre and then divide to occupy several strategically important places to ensure that the citizens would not be able to react effectively to the attack. At the same time a group of Cutthroats would enter the town through different means to keep the constabulary occupied.

A Gas Attack was prepared in case the opposition proved more than anticipated. If even that wouldn’t be enough, then the Vril Mutant and the Champion of Hyperborea would get their turn.

The plan was set and ready to be implemented when Vril-ya Novices acting as scouts brought word that a Primal alliance force was sighted nearby, moving to enter the town. There had been no word of that kind of opposition in the area so Viligut after consulting JusticeAtlas ordered a halt to the attack to account for the unforeseen variable.

A few days passed and the town’s citizens lived in a constant state of apprehension due to the Dominion alliance force. After carefully consulting their experts and gathering sufficient information about the enemy force via scouting Karl Maria Viligut was ready to risk the attack.

Orders were given out and troops moved to their positions. Then they began the approach to the town. Strangely, they did not meet with any resistance during their quick approach. Reports came from the Cutthroats that while the constabulary was putting up a semblance of a fight they had not engaged with any Primal troops. No Strigas, no Leshii, no strange Sidh tricks.

The somewhat overprepared Dominion force met with little resistance in capturing the town. Afterwards in the silence of his personal tent Viligut inspected the piece of paper that had been left nailed to a notice board in the town centre. The note, handwritten on exquisite paper simply said, “Yours, for now”.

In the absence of Danann Covenant’s presence an opportunity for a possible power grab has presented itself. Is this the chance for domination that the Order of Zahir has waited for? Marshalling their poisons and animated creations to the task, the masters of alchemy strike!

Creeping ever closer to its target, the shrewd Boggart approached the unsuspecting Ivory Trader. Having left his camp to conduct some side business with some shadier contacts the Trader had left behind his camp and the safety of numbers. While his pockets were fuller with coin than when he left on his nightly excursion that was surely a small pleasure when he bled out on the forest floor.

A win for the Covenant, albeit a small one. A slightly more successful and impactive victory was gained by the player SampittuNature, who faced off against Franz Tausend in a long and drawn-out brawl. Queen Mab, the commander of the Primal alliance contingent had received some promising reconnaissance that a Dominion force was in a fast march, hoping to exploit a gap nearby that a demolished Brotherhood army had left.

The Primal force took positions way ahead of the approaching Tausend and waited. Just when they were ready to spring the trap an Assassin seemed to sense something and signaled the other marchers with a series of quick hand signals. In mere moments Queen Mab could only watch as her opportunity to ambush vanished as the tired but now alerted Dominion battle-force quickly took positions. Seeing no other choice than to proceed with the plan, Queen Mab gave the order to attack.

Banshees, Spriggans and strange magicks were leveraged against the now defending Golems, Bone Guards, Clones and Underworld Chargers. Combatants fell by the dozens, a Zeppelin was suddenly frozen with an unnatural Frost and rapidly lost altitude, crashing into an Errant Chemist and a Magician.

For what seemed like hours the air echoed with the sounds of explosions, implosions and other strange and more mundane sounds. Cursing the failed ambush, the aristocratic Queen Mab still managed to prevail, though with much heavier losses than anticipated.

The final week of Danann Uncertainty begins and the next leaderboard reset will happen on the 1st of March at 00:00 PDT. Like usual, there is no Mayhem in February.

The prices awarded for the best players will be 100, 200, 300 and 100 Influence to the Neophytes, the Adepti, the Cabalists and the New Stars, respectively. Additionally, the New Stars will receive a random card from Danann Covenant while the other brackets will all get a random Rare card from Danann Covenant.

The raids that the Danann Covenant begun early this month have caused the other Cabals to re-evaluate their strategies. While always expecting the unexpected, of course, the Covenant’s opponents still fell prey to many ambushes. The magicks of the Sidhe are awe-inspiring and were the last sight many saw in the fierce battles.

In a particular offensive, the player D4rkPhoenixx attacked with his Nether alliance forces commanded by Alistair Crowley, hoping to take the opposing side’s Morgana Le Fay off guard. Leveraging the ancient wisdom of the east and the deserts all seemed to be going according to plan at first, with the Primal alliance giving ground, perhaps almost too easily. With Crowley’s combatants eagerly giving chase the Covenant’s best troops, previously hidden appeared from the sides. Only the quick thinking of Crowley, by ordering some of his more expendable troops to block the advance, saved the Nether army.

Forced to give up chasing the retreating Primal forces and having to fight on two sides at once, Crowley called a halt and both sides of the conflict regrouped, only to perhaps fight again another day.

The leaderboard reset will happen again next week on the 22nd at the normal time of 00:00 PDT. The prices for the best players will then be as follows:

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100 Influence and a random Uncommon card from Danann Covenant for the top 20 Neophytes
- 200 Influence and a random Uncommon card from Danann Covenant for the top 15 Adepti
- 300 Influence and a random Uncommon card from Danann Covenant for the top 10 Cabalists
- 100 Influence and a random card from Danann Covenant for the top 10 New Stars

Please keep in mind that to qualify for being selected as a Danann Champion at the end of the month you need to have an email-address attached to your account so we can get in touch with you regarding your chosen reward card.